Consciousness - The Hard Problem
- Created by: Olivia Grace Matthews
- Created on: 18-01-16 13:05
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- Consciousness - The Hard Problem
- Easy Problems
- Which bits of the brain are responsible for what kinds of thought? (Neurological)
- How does the brain store information? (Neurological)
- How do we differentiate between stimuli? eg. Shades of blue (Psychological)
- How does language relate to thought (Psychological)
- The Hard Problem
- We know lots about the brain but not conscious thought
- Some non-answers
- We know facial recognition is a process located in the visual cortex
- Psychologist: 'consciousness doesn't matter - we can explain everything the mind does without it
- This doesn't change the fact that we are conscious
- Epiphenominalism: The view that conscious thoughts are epiphenomena
- Conscious Privacy
- Things look different to different people
- Objectivity
- 'An objective fact'
- Do not depend on one point of view - they are true even if no one notices them
- Subjectivity
- Matter of opinion
- eg. 'Dr Davnall is the best lecturer
- Nagal's Point
- When we explain things, we tend to move from subjective descriptions to objective
- We can communicate what we're conscious of
- Physicalism
- The mind is the brain, mental things are physical things
- Mental events are physical events
- Nagal argues this is only understandable if we have context
- Easy Problems
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